"Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized."

-- Irvin D. Yalom

#People Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.”
“A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.”

Source : Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”
“I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal”
“If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam”
“The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.”
“I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.”
“Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators”
“There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.”

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